Simulating groups and the intragroup medium: the surprisingly complex and rich middle ground between clusters and galaxies

BD Oppenheimer, A Babul, Y Bahé, IS Butsky… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting
individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics …

Massive central galaxies of galaxy groups in the Romulus simulations: an overview of galaxy properties at z = 0

SL Jung, D Rennehan, V Saeedzadeh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Contrary to many stereotypes about massive galaxies, observed brightest group galaxies
(BGGs) are diverse in their star formation rates, kinematic properties, and morphologies …

Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

R Kannan, E Garaldi, A Smith, R Pakmor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the thesan project, a suite of large volume () radiation-magnetohydrodynamic
simulations that simultaneously model the large-scale statistical properties of the …

The MillenniumTNG project: the galaxy population at z ≥ 8

R Kannan, V Springel, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The early release science results from JWST have yielded an unexpected abundance of
high-redshift luminous galaxies that seems to be in tension with current theories of galaxy …

The quenching of galaxies, bulges, and disks since cosmic noon-A machine learning approach for identifying causality in astronomical data

AFL Bluck, R Maiolino, S Brownson… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We present an analysis of the quenching of star formation in galaxies, bulges, and disks
throughout the bulk of cosmic history, from z= 2− 0. We utilise observations from the Sloan …

The diversity and variability of star formation histories in models of galaxy evolution

KG Iyer, S Tacchella, S Genel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the variability of galaxy star formation histories (SFHs) across a range of time-
scales provides insight into the underlying physical processes that regulate star formation …

Spatially resolved star formation and inside-out quenching in the TNG50 simulation and 3D-HST observations

EJ Nelson, S Tacchella, B Diemer, J Leja… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We compare the star-forming main sequence (SFMS) of galaxies–both integrated and
resolved on 1 kpc scales–between the high-resolution TNG50 simulation of IllustrisTNG and …

A new census of the 0.2< z< 3.0 Universe. I. The stellar mass function

J Leja, JS Speagle, BD Johnson… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
There has been a long-standing factor-of-two tension between the observed star formation
rate density and the observed stellar mass buildup after z∼ 2. Recently, we have proposed …

Galactic angular momentum in the IllustrisTNG simulation–I. Connection to morphology, halo spin, and black hole mass

V Rodriguez-Gomez, S Genel, SM Fall… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use the TNG100 simulation of the IllustrisTNG project to investigate the stellar specific
angular momenta (j*) of∼ 12 000 central galaxies at z= 0 in a full cosmological context, with …

Expectations of the Size Evolution of Massive Galaxies at 3≤ z≤ 6 from the TNG50 Simulation: The CEERS/JWST View

L Costantin, PG Pérez-González… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of about 25,000 images of massive (M⋆≥ 10 9 M⊙) galaxies at
redshifts 3≤ z≤ 6 from the TNG50 cosmological simulation, tailored for observations at …